Search Engine Friendly URLs - redux

[Frank71]

Hello,

hm, why should Google give dynamic pages a better ranking than dynamic pages rewritten with mod_rewrite if Google knows that a mod_rewrite page is a rewriten dynamic page ?
I think there is no big sense for this and if I look to the net and see all the rewriten results pages from amazon and ebay I think you are wrong

But if you find a solution to use letters at minimum in the link ID please let me know !!!
For me its another request, because I have some database with also letters in the ID and I like to transfer them to indexu.

Regards
Frank

[guaranis]

I am using mod_rewrite for several years and that was a big benefit, but since the florida update, I have big problems with some sites.
So, 6 months ago I wanted to do a test and i did setup 2 identical sites with similar domains and content. one in dynamic and the other in mod_rewrite.
The mod_rewrite has 40 times more pages indexed in google, but the real dynamic drives 2 times more traffic!!
google is not the only engine and in 6 month this could change, so I don't know but it could be that if people do mod_rewrite, th purpose is to fool search engines and get indexed, and i think search engines don't like to be fooled.

Now don't compare to amazon or ebay, they are big players with original content and millions of links pointing to them, so the rules are different.

To have letters in the link_id, it's not so difficult, I did it because i wanted to integrate some amazon products and take the asin as link_id. (I am having problems with the category_id in fact).

1/ with phpmyadmin you can change the structure of all the tables in your database containing link_id.
change the link_id field to varchar 255 or whatever (remove of course the auto increment).

2/ now you need to find all occurences of link_id in all files, most are in category.class.php and link.class.php but also in other files.
Change only the link_id in the sql statements
ex, change
where link_id = $id";
by
where link_id = '$id'";

or
where link_id = $link_id";
by
where link_id = '$link_id'";